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...GIRL: Every day I pray to God to be skinny. I pray to God that I'll lose weight and wake up 20 pounds lighter...
Instead, the Harvard Crimson ended the weekend two titles lighter. The No. 2 men's team (11-2, 4-1 Ivy) lost a very close match to No. 3 Princeton 5-4 yesterday, leaving it a game behind the Tigers (8-1, 5-1 Ivy) in the Ivy League standings. The No. 2 women's team (6-3, 3-2 Ivy) fell to No. 1 Pennsylvania (7-0, 5-0 Ivy) 6-3 a day earlier...
...were cut and paintings were dutifully double-backed--two layers of canvas were used. Turning over the Turners, she placed the 200-year-old canvas backings under glass. Because a horizontal wooden support directly bisected the back of the canvas, a region of the backing was left less weathered, lighter in tone than the rest, so that a pale horizontal bar runs across the middle of each. The canvases look like a miniature Rothkos in sepia tones. Rothko wanted to create "the modern landscape," so the association comes full circle, again...
...Science in the Public Interest, based in Washington. The CSPI earned its biggest headlines for its 1994 expose of movie-theater popcorn, a study that revealed the supposedly healthy snack to be swollen with calories and swimming in fat. Dieters were stunned, and many movie houses quickly switched to lighter oils in their popping machines--earning the CSPI kudos...
There's an article in the latest issue of National Geographic on the subject of physical beauty. Among the conclusions that studies reveal: Attractive people make more money, receive more attention in school, get lighter court sentences and are generally perceived as friendlier; babies look longer at faces that adults consider more attractive; blond was the hair dye of choice for the women of ancient Greece; and three years after television was introduced in Fiji, 15 percent of girls had started trying vomiting to lose weight...